Authors :

Jazz Wang

Waue Chen

Rock Kuo

Rider Tu

Steven Shiau

Ceasar Sun

Thomas Tsai

Kuo-Lien Huang

Jean-Francois Nifenecker

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is a growing research topic in recent years. The key
concept of Cloud Computing is to provide a resource sharing model
based on virtualization, distributed file system, parallel algorithm
and web services. But how can we provide a testbed for cloud computing
related training courses ? In this talk we will share our experience to
build cloud computing testbed for virtualization, high throughput
computing and bioinformatics applications. It covers lots of open
source projects, such as DRBL, Xen, Hadoop and bioinformatics related
applications.

In short, Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or
systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian,
Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and SuSE. DRBL uses
distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to
fully access local hardware.

Xen is one of open source hypervisor for linux kernel. It had been
used in Amazon EC2 production environment to provide cloud service
model (1) — "Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)". In this talk, we
will show you how DRBL can help on fast deployment of Xen playground
in classroom.

Hadoop is becoming the well-known open source cloud computing
technology developed by Apache community. It is very power tool for
data mining. It had been used in Yahoo and Facebook production
environment to provide cloud service model (2) — "Platform as a
Service (PaaS)". It’s easy to setup single hadoop node but difficult
to manage a hadoop cluster. In this talk, we will show you how DRBL
can help on fast deployment and management.

Most bioinformatics applications are open source, such as R,
Bioconductor, BLAST, Clustal, PipMaker, Phylip, etc. But it also
require traditional cluster job submission. In this talk we will show
you how DRBL can help to build a testbed of bioinformatics research
and provide cloud service model (3) — "Software as a Service (SaaS)".
In this talk, we will cover how to :

A live demonstration about drbl-hadoop and drbl-biocluster will be
done in the talk, too.

Biography

Jazz Yao-Tsung Wang is a co-developer of DRBL/Clonezilla team in Free
Software Lab, NCHC, NARL, Taiwan.

Free Software in NCHC mainly develop open source software for
education including DRBL, clonezilla, partclone, Tux2Live, etc.
DRBL/Clonezilla team are one of the winners in Trophees du Libre
competition in the category "Public
sector applications".

National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) is the only
supercomputing center in Taiwan. It’s a non-profit organization
founded by Taiwan’s National Science Council (NSC). Our mission is to
assist researchers on a national level.